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Show BRITISH WORKERS ADVANGEW AGES LONDON, Jan. H, i Correspondence Correspond-ence of the Associated I'ress. ) British Brit-ish labor has ealned a great advance in w.ircm as well as a further shortening shorten-ing of worklnu hours during 1 920 but the new year begins with a rising tide of unemployment Increases In wageT durlnc 1020 liavo amounted to nearly 6,000,000 and affected 7.547.000 workers. A labor r-orresponden t of the Liverpool Liver-pool Post says, however, trial It Is probably a modest estimate lo say that the whole of these waste mo eases i have been swept uway by unemployment unemploy-ment and under-employment. For example, ex-ample, the textile workers to the number of 1,003,000 received, in the earlier months of tho year, advances In wages totaling .180,000 a week The greater number of mills are now running only three days a we; U anil It is well within the mark to put the loss from under-employment at JCl.-000.000 JCl.-000.000 a week. "In the engineering and shipbuilding shipbuild-ing Industries 1.202.000 workers received re-ceived advances to the amount of) 429.500 a week but here again the, wage advance has been more than lost by unemployment and underemployment. under-employment. Dock workers have had the same sorry experience, and the lesson which It carries is that In competitive com-petitive trades the wage-earning power can only be maintain" d on an output of corresponding value " During tho year 553.700 workers have obtained un aggregate reduction of 2.071.200 hours a week. Although there have been more In-I dustrlal dibputes than In 1919 the j number of working days lost by strikes shows a diminution There J w ere 1563 disputes during the year 1920. involving 1.952.0O0 workers and, 26.507.O0O clays wore lost, the latter being swelled by the coal strike In! October Slid November. |